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It was sold in 1936 to Spreckels Sugar Company, which is the parent company of Holly Sugar.
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Spreckels was later purchased by Imperial SugarThe first post office at Hamilton City opened in 1906.
It was built to house workers for the Spreckels Sugar Company plant which operated there from 1899 until 1982, named after its founder " Sugar King " Claus Spreckels.
When it opened, the Spreckels plant was the world's largest sugar beet factory, each day consuming 13 million gallons of water ( much of it pumped from wells ) to process 3000 tons of beets.
( Spreckels was used as a location for the 1955 Steinbeck movie East of Eden.
The racial makeup of Spreckels was 483 ( 71. 8 %) White, 0 ( 0. 0 %) African American, 13 ( 1. 9 %) Native American, 26 ( 3. 9 %) Asian, 0 ( 0. 0 %) Pacific Islander, 130 ( 19. 3 %) from other races, and 21 ( 3. 1 %) from two or more races.
The Legion of Honor was the gift of Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, wife of the sugar magnate and thoroughbred racehorse owner / breeder Adolph B. Spreckels.
Belmont Park was originally built as the Mission Beach Amusement Center by John D. Spreckels in 1925 to stimulate real estate sales and to promote his electric railway.
However, he was denounced by the San Francisco Chronicle as being a " sugar coated candidate ", being used by Spreckels to advance his own interests, and was defeated in the election.
In 1883, Neumann came to the Hawaiian Islands to serve as legal counsel for Spreckels who was now the publisher of the Honolulu Advertiser newspaper, first in the fall for a short visit.
The cabinet stayed intact until June 30, 1886, when another combination ( except Gibson ) was brought in, probably at the suggestion of Spreckels.
Claus Spreckels, formally Adolph Claus J. Spreckels ( July 9, 1828 – December 26, 1908 ), ( his last name has also been misspelled as Spreckles ), was a major industrialist in Hawai ' i during the kingdom, republican and territorial periods of the islands ' history.
Spreckels was born in Lamstedt, Hanover, now a state of Germany.
His first refinery, built in 1867, was at Eighth and Brannan Streets in San Francisco, but by the late 1870s the Brannan Street facilities were running at capacity, so Spreckels chose a site in Potrero Point to open a larger sugar refinery with water access.
Spreckels was one of the original investors in the Santa Cruz Railroad, which began operation in 1875 and passed through his land on its run between Santa Cruz and Watsonville.
It was on the Aptos ranch that Spreckels began to experiment with growing sugar beets.
In 1888, Spreckels established the Western Beet Sugar Company in Watsonville, which was at that time the largest beet sugar factory in the U. S. By 1890, Spreckels main growing operations had shifted to the Salinas Valley, so he built the 42-mile narrow gauge Pajaro Valley Consolidated Railroad to ship his sugar beets from the fields near Salinas to Watsonville.
This control over the industry was irksome to Hawaiian planters not directly affiliated with Spreckels and his associates.
Spreckels was the President of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway from 1895 until it was sold to the Santa Fe Railway in 1901.
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